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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...should create in kids the demand that any movie aimed at them must be at least within shouting distance of those masterpieces. If the good doesn't drive out the bad, it should at least stir in young minds a healthy skepticism toward movie mediocrity - and zero tolerance for crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alvin 2: The Unspeakable Squeakquel | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...mails, scientists appear to have trouble reconciling recent temperature data with the warming expected from climate models. And overall, the correspondence evinces climate scientists' outright scorn for global-warming skeptics; in one message, Ben Santer, a researcher from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory offers - presumably in jest - to "beat the crap out of" a leading skeptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...song, Mayday (sung in English), could be used by a coalition of writers and journalists at a protest in Detroit. "And we are the ones who work their fields/ And we are the ones who fight their wars," the track goes. "And we are the ones to cut this crap." The passionate defiance is signature Tika (as she's more commonly known), and something that sets the 28-year-old singer-songwriter apart from Indonesia's hyper-conservative entertainment establishment. "Every time I turn on the TV something pisses me off," she says. "I feel like I am witnessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...voice several octaves and intone, “Coming this summer. Action. Adventure. Romance.” In one sketch, Francisco invited the audience to imagine the voiceover to an upcoming action flick actually being honest: “Jean-Claude Van Damme is back in the same crap you’ve seen over, and over, and over again.” Coupling his ability to mimic LaFontaine to a repertoire of actor imitations, from Keanu Reeves to Al Pacino, Francisco is perhaps the only stand-up comedian who can act out an entire movie trailer live. His most...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Making an Impression: Francisco Creates Comedy | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...getting my lovely wife Cassandra to join me. The speed with which she both agreed and went to her computer should have clued me in to the fact that while I envisioned coupon-clipping and circular-reading, she saw the doors swing open to a World Wide Web of crap. Did you know there's an amber teething necklace that the baby doesn't actually put in his mouth but that works by releasing soothing warmth? And would you believe that it's easy to find on sale? (See 10 big recession surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: The Week of Living Cheaply | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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